he can still make the team through training camp and summer league play.

they just aren't locking him up like they did with Ebanks last year when he was signed before training camp even started and we said no to players better than him because we were financially obligated.

"Bryant had come to rage against the idea that Howard's clownish disposition could overtake the locker room, the Lakers' culture, and had warned Howard that he would never, ever let it happen."